[maemo-developers] Eclipse & the IDEs

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

Hi Ian,

>> genealogy. However, as soon as we jump to traditional 
>mobile, Windows 
>> based or commercial software development IDEs are a must
>What do you mean by this?....How is 'traditional mobile' so 
>different from any other sort of development that we *must* 
>use commercial software?

No, what I mean is:

* We want to expand the maemo offer to developers coming from
	- mobile phone / smartphone software development.
	- Software development for MS Windows.
	- Commercial software development for the desktop.

* We want to offer them development tools (like the ones) they are used
to work with. Eclipse is the most obvious step at this point.

* Needless to say, current maemo developers happy with command-line GNU
tools, emacs, vim, etc don't need to bother about this. maemo is a Linux
based platform and we will keep supporting the native and usual
development tools for this environment.

* I didn't write anywhere that you *must* use commercial software to
develop anything. :)  Note that Eclipse is open source software and not
commercial.

>I have been using pyphantom recently and I think it is a great 
>(but pretty new IDE) that definitely deserves some support 
>https://garage.maemo.org/projects/pyphantom/

Looking the list of admins it seems that we are already providing "some
support" to this pre-alpha software. 

Quim